History Main / RememberedICouldFly

* In one ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' strip, Grace spends a few panels trying fruitlessly to escape from a full nelson before realizing that she's a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]], and she can easily slip out by [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1238 turning into a tiny squirrel.]]

* Bakinman from ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' is an alien germ that looks more like a human-esque fly. Because of this, he has two tiny wings on his back that he sometimes buzzes around with. As soon as the weapons on his UFO were fully established, he never used his wings again...until the episode "Baikinman and Baikin Castle", where, stuck on top of his fortress, he starts to panic...until he realizes "Oh yeah, there's that." when he sees his wings, as he flies off...but he comes back down when he's guilt tripped into saving the others.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Bananaman}}'' isn't the brightest superhero, so when he's told to "get on your bike", he starts bicycling through the air, until NonHumanSidekick Crow reminds him that bicycles can't fly. Cue drop. Crow then reminds him that Bananaman ''can'' fly. "Oh, so I can."
* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', a very tiny kitten assassin named Me-Mow threatens to inject Jake with poison unless he helps him. Eventually, Finn catches on and tries to stop him, only for Me-Maw to inject enough poison into Jake to kill a dog 50 times his size. A brief panic is held before Jake remembers he can [[VoluntaryShapeshifter change his size]], resulting in making his liver 51x bigger in order to effectively neutralize the poison.

* {{Inverted}} in ''WebComics/TowerOfGod'' (Hell Train: The Dallar Show), when the birdlike humanoid Pompidou talks about how he could fly somewhere but then remembers that he ''can't'' fly.

Compare RememberedTooLate.

Contrast ForgotICouldntSwim and ReminderOfImpossibility.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries''. Aladdin asks another character to take a rope to the top of a high tower for him, at which point said character launches into a diatribe about how dangerous this would be for him, and how crazy and inconsiderate a thing it is to ask of him. Aladdin's response is to wait the rant out, as there's no point in trying to reason with him until he's finished, then points out to him that he can fly. At which point, the character -- ([[TalkingAnimal the parrot, Iago]]) -- says, "Oh, yeah."

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Brian keeps forgetting about his superior sense of smell.

* In a ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' tie-in comic. Bennet drives someone who can turn into water into a corner by shooting at him, knowing full well that the man in question is ImmuneToBullets. Justified in that he's relying on panic and the fact that the guy is new to his powers and won't use them instinctively. By the time the guy realizes this, Bennet's partner gets the drop on him.

* During the underwater battle in ''Manga/FairyTail'''s Tartaros arc, Levy desperately provides Gajeel some of her own air via an UnderwaterKiss. Then Gajeel reminds her that she can just use [[WordsCanBreakMyBones her magic]] to make air bubbles for them both, much to her severe embarrassment.

* In ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'', Bombette is first seen stuck in a jail cell. Once she joins the party, she can use her explosion power to break through the wall. She then sheepishly admits that the idea hadn't occurred to her before that point. Apparently it hadn't occurred to any of the four ''other'' Bob-ombs locked in the cell with her, either.

* In one issue of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', ComicBook/{{Cloak|AndDagger}} is trying to get away from the Avengers, who think he hospitalized his partner Dagger. It apparently does not occur to him that he can just, you know, [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleport]] away from them until after he's ''thrown himself headfirst through a window''.

* In ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', Rapunzel and Flynn are trapped in a cave that's filling up with water. He tells her he can't find an exit, it's too dark, and confides in her what his real name is. Wanting to reciprocate, she tells him she had magical hair that glows in the dark when she sings. It even takes her a few moments after that to make a connection. Justified, as she wasn't accustomed to even thinking of that as a useful ability.
* Played with in the ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'' movie. The gang (minus Piglet) is stuck in a pit, with no way out. Piglet is told to get help, but Piglet is afraid to go through the woods on his own. Owl flies out of the pit to talk to Piglet, and gives a rousing speech, convincing Piglet to go off. Owl hops back into the pit, and all his friends stare at him.
--> '''Owl''': What?
--> '''Rabbit''': Owl...that was a...beautiful speech! I didn't know you had it in you!

* In ''Discworld/EqualRites'', the wizards are standing around unsure of what to do until Esk yells, "You're wizards! Bloody well wizz!" (This was before the "power from not doing magic" thing started, so they weren't doing it deliberately; they just actually were unsure they should wizz.)

** Also, Raditz could have avoided being shot through the chest by Piccolo if he had flown, regardless of the lock Goku put him in, as Piccolo helpfully points out.

Compare and contrast HowDoIShotWeb, InformedAbility and NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.

* One chapter of ''[[Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life]]'' has Kanna trying and failing to get a suntan due to dragons having a natural resistance to UV rays. Then Tohru reminds her that, as a dragon, [[VoluntaryShapeshifter she could just alter her appearance]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', [[BedsheetGhost Napstablook]] falls down a hole and [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown tells the player to go on without him]] before remembering that ghosts can fly.

Can be more or less justified if the powers are rarely useful, so that the character has not used them for a long time; if the power's use in this situation is an entirely new one; if the character has (or has had) a good reason to avoid the use, and so got into the habit of not thinking of it; or if the power itself was gained only recently, and the character is not used to having it as an option. Also by not having time enough to think.

* Happens to Fukurou in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Franky was chasing him around firing bullets at him, when he suddenly remembered he could DoubleJump and had SuperSpeed. He said something along the lines of "What am I doing?!" before he started fighting back. Chopper did this too in his fight against Baroque Works. Miss Merry Christmas held onto his feet so he couldn't move, while Mr. 4's gun/dog Lasso fired an exploding baseball at him. He screamed as the ball flew towards his head, but then changed back into his (smaller) hybrid form, resulting in the ball flying harmlessly overhead. He even says "Whew, forgot I could do this."